Keystone 8

Well that was a long day.  Just over 14 hours on the boiler yesterday and we were both dragging ass by the time we rolled into Ruby Tuesdays.  Yesterday was also a physically demanding day to boot, but I'll get to that later.  The reasoning behind the long day was that we are getting close to the end of the install.  Indeed, all of the hardware has been installed and verified to be correct.  The rack was upgraded, all IP addresses were assigned to our "heads," and half of the heads were aligned, with the other half being aligned by the computers.  All of that plus a smattering of other odds and ends throughout the day and we accomplished much.  Today will entail completion of the alignments, fine tuning the lasers, cleaning up the MDC, and checking the numbers as reported by the system.

The plant personnel seem to be rather enthused by our system.  A night shift rover queried Brett for about 20 minutes, I think, about the system last night.  Plus we've seen a variety of people with our main contact, Joe, poking around the system.  That level of interest tends to spur me on to provide the best product that we can, as I am sure it does for my colleague.  We'll see how many questions we get to field once the system is officially turned on, but I am suspecting that we'll be bombarded.

The drive into the plant was pretty, and deceptively so:

Sunrise over Keystone

The physical pain was greater than it was for the prior 7 days.  First off, my hands still haven't recovered from the bed bugs.  They hurt quite a bit more than they itch:

Right hand, looks like the left

It turns out that there was a really good reason as to why our feet were a-cookin' when we were assembling the system:

So what is one to do when working in this kind of heat?  Well the first is to protect ourselves as best as possible:

Burnt box after 5 minutes in on the deck

:When all else fails:

Tebowing in the hot spot

Almost to the end of this install!!

Thank you for reading,

Kevin